Thanks for the advice about the sail stop. My baby did not come with one. I have been using tape to hold the sail in place. As soon as I read about getting them at West Marine, I ordered two. Agree with Connie, I tie as much down as I can -- sooner or later everything lands in the water. Can't tell you how many motor keys I've lost (attached to a floater no less). I would like to see another Monty 15 in my area. Anyone out there from Connecticut or near? In the winter I get down to Venice Beach - Anyone in that area? Pictures are OK but I would like to see your rigging up close. I have a few questions. Bonnie montgomery_boats-request@mailman.xmission.com wrote: Send montgomery_boats mailing list submissions to montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to montgomery_boats-request@mailman.xmission.com You can reach the person managing the list at montgomery_boats-owner@mailman.xmission.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of montgomery_boats digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Sail stop (chbenneck@juno.com) 2. Re: M-15 Prop pitch (chbenneck@juno.com) 3. RE: M17 for sale in VA (John Tyner) 4. RE: M17 for sale in VA (bill safford) 5. Re: M17 for sale in VA (Wcpritchett@aol.com) 6. sail stops that Bob buys up and hides.... (Blake Reimer) 7. Re: worst conditions to take an m15 (LUDLOWD2@aol.com) 8. Re: M-15 Prop pitch (LUDLOWD2@aol.com) 9. Re: Compass M-15 (Gary M Hyde) 10. Socal Potters Anacapa trip pics (Nebwest2@aol.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:03:19 -0400 From: chbenneck@juno.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: Sail stop To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Message-ID: <20070831.141316.4012.1.chbenneck@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Joe, Sail stops are a form of cylindrical grasshopper. When one drops on deck, it immediately makes a big leap into the next available body of water. Now, you can either keep replacing sail stops; keeping spares on hand for when they hop, or, .... Use a piece of 1/4" bungee cord wrapped twice around the mast and tied in a square knot. It keeps the main sail slugs in place; is easily moveable; is almost instantly removable; and costs only a fraction of what the grasshopper / sail stops cost.... Connie ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:09:11 -0400 From: chbenneck@juno.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: M-15 Prop pitch To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Message-ID: <20070831.141316.4012.2.chbenneck@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Captain Jim, My Honda 2 HP moved my old M15 at hull speed at about 2/3rds throttle. Once I also used it to move an M17, with 5 adults in the cockpit, up the Thames river against the outgoing tide. Again, no problem. Connie ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:06:00 -0400 From: "John Tyner" Subject: RE: M_Boats: M17 for sale in VA To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I wonder if this is the one with the strange HIN I saw in Colonial Beach two years ago? ~ John Tyner M-15 #412 "Chimpanzee" -----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Doug Kelch Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 10:18 AM To: Montgomery Subject: M_Boats: M17 for sale in VA this is from Messing about in boats. Montgomery 17 ''77, clean in god working orders. new main and working jib by Dabbler Sails; new Yamaha 4 hp; hull and topsides recently painted; serviceable trailer w/recent tires and bearing buddies. $6500 firm. John Hohnson, Colonial Beach, BA on the Potomac 804-224-1538, jajohncb@verizon.net --------------------------------- Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 04:39:16 +0800 From: bill safford Subject: RE: M_Boats: M17 for sale in VA To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312" Wow, that's an impressive asking price. No where near NADA, BUC or the market. All I can say is "good luck".> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:18:15 -0700> From: doug_kelch@yahoo.com> To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: M_Boats: M17 for sale in VA> > this is from Messing about in boats.> > Montgomery 17 ''77, clean in god working orders. new main and working jib by Dabbler Sails; new Yamaha 4 hp; hull and topsides recently painted; serviceable trailer w/recent tires and bearing buddies. $6500 firm.> John Hohnson, Colonial Beach, BA on the Potomac 804-224-1538, jajohncb@verizon.net> > > ---------------------------------> Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! > Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.> _______________________________________________> http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _________________________________________________________________ Stay connected with your friends and discover new ones on Windows Live Spaces! http://spaces.live.com?mkt=en-sg ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:39:38 EDT From: Wcpritchett@aol.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: M17 for sale in VA To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Brandon, Can you please send info on your Kingfisher 22 to me? Thanks, Bill wcpritchett at aol dot com ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:45:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Blake Reimer Subject: M_Boats: sail stops that Bob buys up and hides.... To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Message-ID: <706253.43087.qm@web59111.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Thanks alot Bob! Is that how people wind up buying new Montgomery's? They can't find a replacement sail stop? ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 11:17:22 EDT From: LUDLOWD2@aol.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: worst conditions to take an m15 To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I don't know what the limit is, I've had Sweet Dream out in the bay in 18 - 25 several times with a reef and the 110 up, closehauled into 3 - 4 ft chop for some fairly long runs (20 miles). cockpit dry, a little spray in the face. I did have the companionway slats in though. I never though about dropping the sails and firing up the trusty Honda. The only difficulty is fighting down the sails when single handed in that kind of sea. I've tryed heaving too but it seems to work better to drop the jib first, then pull the main down most of the way, sling a couple uf bungie balls around it and head to the dock to clean the sails up. Don in Mobile ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 11:43:00 EDT From: LUDLOWD2@aol.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: M-15 Prop pitch To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" With the one liter on-board tank, I get 1.25 hours at around 5 MPH ( I got the GPS set on MPH rather thank Knots) so I get just over 6 miles on a tank with 3.8 tanks peer gallon. Probably a little more if I slowed it down a little. I bought 3 gallons this year and uses one of them on the famous BEER cruise with the trailer sailors. so 28 MPG is probably right. I vote for the Hohda. its air-cooled (no flushiing in water tanks) and weighs 28 lbs ( I keep it in the shed at home to keep it from being stolen) so its easy to carry and mount. No water pump of shifter to fail. ALWAYS starts. Don in Mobile ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 12:22:57 -0700 From: Gary M Hyde Subject: Re: M_Boats: Compass M-15 To: "Montgomery Sailboats Message-ID: <637A1DF4-C519-4625-90C3-43FF428F1FA1@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes My GPS does have a light Sent from my iPhone On Aug 30, 2007, at 9:07 PM, jim sadler wrote:
Thanks Skipper I am thinking about sailing at night. Do you use the GPS to hold a course? Does it have a light the you can see. Captain Jim Sailing vessel Pelican M-15
On 8/30/07, Gary M Hyde wrote:
I have a hand-bearing compass that also has a mount; but a GPS is cheaper and more useful. The combination of the two is useful when current is an issue.
--Gary Hyde 2005 M17 sailboat #637 'Hydeaway 2' We can't change the wind, but we can trim our sails.
On Aug 30, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Jim Sadler wrote:
What are you skippers using for a compass? Are you mounting it flush next to the companion way? How is it illuminated? Thanks Captain Jim Sadler Skipper Sailing vessel Pelican M-15
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------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:04:07 EDT From: Nebwest2@aol.com Subject: M_Boats: Socal Potters Anacapa trip pics To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" This link: _http://howies.net/socalpotter/anacapa2007/index.htm_ (http://howies.net/socalpotter/anacapa2007/index.htm) will take you to the Socal Potters photo album of the recent trip to Anacapa island off Ventura. This is a compilation of everyone's best photos. Great group of folks who welcome Monty sailors to join them. Check it out when you get a chance. Sean and 'Jo M23 Dauntless www.havasumontgomerys.piczo.com ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ montgomery_boats mailing list montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats End of montgomery_boats Digest, Vol 55, Issue 1 ***********************************************